SMEs trialled

WRAP has launched a series of feasibility trials encouraging small to medium enterprises to recycle their waste.

As a part of WRAP's ongoing SME recycling programme, the trials will help develop services to make it easier for SMEs to recycle. The six-month study will assess collection techniques, frequencies and charging mechanisms, and effective ways to recruit SMEs onto recycling schemes.

The trials are divided across the construction and commercial food industries, site-specific services for business parks and industrial estates, and collection schemes for small retailers and offices.

Liz Morrish, WRAP's SME Recycling Programme Manager, said: "SMEs cover a vast range of businesses that all have different recycling needs - either because of the relative low quantity of recyclable materials they produce, the space available to store materials or their location. These feasibility trials will give us a much better picture of the kind of recycling services that will work cost effectively for SMEs and therefore encourage these businesses to start recycling their waste."

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